THE Norwegian author Per Petterson has taken the Independent Foreign Fiction prize for his fifth novel, "Out Stealing Horses". This melancholy tale follows a 67-year-old man who is forced to remember the traumatic events of his childhood. The Independent prize, inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour fiction in translation in the UK, accords equal weight to the translator. Anne Born, a British poet, critic and historian who has translated Petterson's novel into English will receive half the ￡10,000 (about US$18826) prize.
Time Magazine podcast launched
日本英语学习网站联合《时代周刊》推出最新播客
EIGOTOWN.COM, Japan's portal site for English language learning and teaching, in cooperation with TIME Inc. has launched a weekly TIME Magazine podcast. The podcast features short discussions of selected articles from each week's issue of TIME Magazine. The discussions use a new "paratalking" method which replicates a real conversation using both English and Japanese. The TIME podcast has already attracted over 20,000 subscribers.
